About LegalMinds

LegalMinds TV

LegalMinds.TV features exclusive video interviews with attorneys focused on a variety of corporate law topics, such as securities regulation, intellectual property, litigation, labor and employment, corporate finance, private equity, environmental law, etc. The goal is to provide timely content to senior corporate executives, their board of directors and their counsel, while offering the lawyers a platform for showcasing their practice area expertise and providing a marketing/business development platform to reach new clients.

LegalMinds Media LLC

LegalMinds Media LLC is a New York City-based media company focused on creating timely, content-rich programming for the legal market, including print, internet and conferences.

Team Members

Bruce M. Colwin

President & CEO
LegalMinds Media LLC

Bruce Colwin is the President and CEO of LegalMinds Media LLC, the New York City-based media company that produces LegalMindsTV and will also be launching LegalMinds magazine in 2010.

Bruce has over 10 years experience in working with new media companies, as well as having consulted with a variety of firms in the legal industry – from large, international firms like Thelen, Reid, Preist, Brown & Raysman to service providers such as Scene Systems, a forensic animation company based in the UK.

His publishing experience includes the role of VP of Strategy & Development at Wall Street Reporter Magazine, where he was responsible for print and digital distribution strategies, new product development, and streamlining operations through integration of technology platforms into advertising, editorial and production process. He also helped launch WSR-TV, a video news and investor relations platform for small-cap public companies.

Prior to his role with the Wall Streer Reporter, Bruce was the Managing Partner of Two Degrees, a business development consultancy that worked with early-stage technology companies to accelerate growth and increase value. Before founding Two Degrees, Bruce served on the management teams of several technology startups, including Chief Operating Officer of CompuTool Corporation, Executive Vice President of DuoCash, a venture-backed payment technology company and Vice President of Business Development at Transparensee Systems, a search technology company.

Before his working on the startup side of the business, Bruce was VP of Business Development at Avenel Ventures, a North Carolina-based technology investment firm, where he was responsible for creating revenue-generating opportunities for their portfolio companies, as well as identifying and evaluating potential strategic acquisition candidates.

Bruce has served on the Advisory Board of the New York Venture Capital Group, New York InfoTech Forum and Sales & Marketing Strategies and News, where he was a frequent contributor. He was also Founder of NYNMA BizDev Network, and served as president of the National Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame. He has also served as a panelist and program moderator at several technology events and venture capital conferences in Silicon Alley.

He currently resides in Northport, LI, where he enjoys sailing his sloop “Unplugged” on the Long Island Sound.

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Marco Ricci

Director of Production
LegalMindsTV

Marco Ricci has been producing and directing corporate and industrial videos for the past ten years for clients such MySpace, Vonage, Best Game Ever and online publishers such as the Wall Street Reporter.

In addition to his role as Director of Production for LegalMindsTV, Marco is an award-winning film producer whose first feature film, “The Marconi Bros.,” made it’s world premiere at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. A comedy about two adversarial brothers who set out to make it big with the King Of Long Island Wedding Videos, the film is being distributed by Universal Pictures/Screen.

Marco’s most recent short film, “Hyper,” was chosen for the Centerpiece of the New York Film Festival, where it opened for P.T. Anderson’s “Punch Drunk Love.” It was honored as the Best Short Short at the prestigious Aspen Shortsfest and was screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, among others. “Hyper” is being distributed by Apollo Cinema and has been seen on Atom Films, RAI Television, and the Independent Film Channel.

His previous short film, “Pishadoo,” was also well received on the festival circuit and was purchased by Canal Plus Europe, Sundance Channel, Atom Films and United Airlines. The film earned production awards at the Santa Barbara Film Festival and the Williamsburg Film Festival.

Marco is currently directing a PBS documentary, “Gone To Texas,” which recounts the life story of Native-American writer Forrest Carter, author of “The Outlaw Jose Wales, who was in actuality a prominent member of the KKK. It is scheduled to air in 2010.

A graduate of Northwestern University, Marco received the Kodak Gold Award and the Sony Production Award for his thesis film “Chicago Minutes.”

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Caryn Silverstein
Client Services Manager

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